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🗓️ 27 November 2025
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A beautiful late summer morning in Odessa, Texas, and Jaylin Schwarz is outside jumping on the trampoline.
It's not unusual to see an 8-year-old girl outside playing, jumping on a trampoline, but this isn't fun for Jaylin. She is being punished, forced to jump on a trampoline in over 100-degree temps. If she stops jumping, she loses her water break.
However, she gets tired and thirsty and needs to stop, but the punishment continues, without getting a drink of water. The temperature on the trampoline is 110 degrees; an adult will need water at this point.
Alysha Anderton has two beautiful little girls, sisters born just one year apart. As much as she loves her little ones, Alysha has been fighting a losing battle with addiction, and trying to make a decision in the best interest of her daughters.
She relinquishes her parental rights and allows her stepsister, Ashley Schwarz, and her husband, Daniel, to take over custody of the girls while she works on getting healthy.
Alysha believes this will only be temporary, and she will be able to see the girls often until she is able to be their full-time mom again. Promising to reunite as a family again soon, Ashley is thankful Jaylin and Jayde have a safe and loving home until she is better.
Jumping on a trampoline is something Jaylin Schwarz does for fun. But the activity has been used by her guardians, Ashley and Daniel Schwarz, as a form of punishment. Other innocent activities, such as writing lines to improve her handwriting skills, carrying weights in a hallway, or picking up dog feces, were also used by Jaylin's guardians.
As a punishment, Jaylin is forced to write lines over and over again until she is told to stop, she is forced to carry weights from one end of the hall to the other and back again, or she picks up dog feces with her bare hands. When the chore is not a punishment, she gets to use gloves.
On August 29, this life-threatening punishment of non-stop jumping on the trampoline takes a deadly turn for Jaylin because the door to the house is locked, there is no access to water, and she has been jumping for hours in the hot summer heat.
After three hours of jumping on the trampoline with temperatures hovering around 110 degrees, Jaylin passes out.
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| 0:04.6 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.6 | Horrific. |
| 0:12.0 | A beautiful little girl, Jalen, just eight years old, trampolined dead, and scorching Texas heat, |
| 0:21.6 | 110 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| 0:26.6 | By who? |
| 0:27.6 | An evil monster? I guess you could say so. |
| 0:30.6 | Her sick parents. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
| 0:34.6 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:36.6 | It's a hot summer morning in Odessa, Texas, and eight-year-old Jalen Schwartz is outside jumping on the trampoline. |
| 0:42.9 | But what appears as an otherwise fun and innocent game for an eight-year-old girl turns out to be deadly abuse. |
| 0:51.2 | Jumping on the trampoline. There was never a happier day than when our twins got a trampoline. |
| 0:57.0 | Of course, we dragged it straight to the front yard, and it's been the centerpiece ever since. |
| 1:03.0 | But for this eight-year-old little girl, the trampolining wasn't for fun. |
| 1:10.0 | It was for punishment. |
| 1:12.6 | Joining me an all-star panel, straight out to Erica Miller, |
| 1:15.8 | joining us from Odessa, Texas, content manager, Digital EP, KMID, Big 2 News. |
| 1:23.6 | Erica, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:26.1 | Thank you, Nancy. |
| 1:26.8 | What does that mean? |
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